Robert Forster (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian singer-songwriter
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Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
About Robert Forster (musician)
- Robert Derwent Garth Forster (born 29 June 1957) is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and music critic.
- In December 1977 he co-founded an indie rock group, The Go-Betweens, with fellow musician, Grant McLennan.
- In 1980 Lindy Morrison joined the group on drums and backing vocals and by 1981 Forster and Morrison were also lovers.
- In 1988, "Streets of Your Town", co-written by McLennan and Forster, became the band's biggest chart hit in both Australia and the United Kingdom.
- The follow-up single, "Was There Anything I Could Do?", was a No.
- 16 hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States.
- In December 1989, after recording six albums, The Go-Betweens disbanded.
- Forster and Morrison had separated as a couple earlier and Forster began his solo music career from 1990. Forster's solo studio albums are Danger in the Past (1990), Calling from a Country Phone (1993), I Had a New York Girlfriend (1995), Warm Nights (1996), The Evangelist (2008) and Songs To Play (2015).
- Allmusic's Stewart Mason described him, as having "a knack for crafty pop songs along with the brooding ballads he contributed to the Go-Betweens' albums, and his solo career has shown a healthy mix of the two styles".
- From 2000 to 2006, The Go-Betweens reformed and issued three more studio albums before Grant McLennan died on 6 May 2006, of a heart attack.
- In May 2001 "Cattle and Cane", from The Go-Between's Before Hollywood (1983) was selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.
- In 2008, 16 Lovers Lane (1988) was highlighted on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) TV's The Great Australian Albums series as a classic example of 1980s rock music.
- Forster began writing as a music critic in 2005 for national current affairs magazine The Monthly and a columnist for its sister publication The Saturday Paper in 2014.
- For his debut solo album, Danger in the Past, Forster was backed on vocals by Karin Bäumler of German pop group, Baby You Know.
- In the early 1990s Forster and Bäumler were married, the couple have two children. A portrait of Forster, by the artist known as what, won the 2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
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